Unit 4 短文填空与语法填空强化练-2023-2024学年九年级英语全册重难考点提升训练（人教版）

Unit4 I used to be afraid of the dark. 短文填空与语法填空强化练 学校:___________姓名：___________班级：___________考号：___________ 一、短文首字母填空 （一） Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words（在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给） International English MagazineShort Story Competition Topic: Going back to… Name: Giacomo Alessi I had been looking forward to going back to the village where I was born for a long time. My family moved away from the village 15 years ago and I hadn’t been back s 1 then. In the days before I went, I was excited. The village is special to me as I was born there and my family had lived there for years before that. I also felt a bit worried, however. I remembered a peaceful place with small shops along the main street, traditional houses and people sitting under the trees, chatting to each other. I don’t know why it m 2 to me so much, but I didn’t want to find that the village had changed so much that I could h 3 recognize it. On the day I went, the sun was shining. I had decided to arrive on foot so I got off the bus at the edge of the village and I s 4 walked along the rough road. As I got nearer, what I saw took my breath away. Right in front of my eyes was a large, modern building. I quickly realized it was a huge shopping centre. Immediately, I felt disappointed and from that point on, I found that it had really changed. I walked along the main street, however, and felt better and better. I saw trendy, new shops but old, traditional o 5 as well. There were new blocks of flats alongside the beautiful old houses. The roads were b 6 than I had remembered, but there were still people sitting under the trees in the main square. I realized that my village had changed, but that it wasn’t the disaster that I had imagined. In fact, it was a good thing that the village had moved with the t 7 and remained a thriving（蒸蒸日上的）place. （二） Our lives have changed since the day our son was born. We w 8